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Before You Plant a Bradford Pear In Indiana Read This First
So there I was scrolling through Facebook today like I do every day in search of things to spark creative ideas for me to write about when I saw it - the opening words of a Facebook post that stopped my scroll in its tracks:
Can you smell rotting fish in the air this spring?
Those ten words caught my attention. Before I knew it, I had read the entire post from the Sycamore Land Trust and decided that I needed to share with you what I learned and perhaps even dissuade you from planting the tree that smells like rotting fish aka the Callery Pear or as it s more commonly known, the Bradford Pear.
Charleston considering new park for Johns Island
VIDEO: Charleston considering new park for Johns Island By Danielle Seat | April 7, 2021 at 5:09 AM EDT - Updated April 7 at 7:37 AM
JOHNS ISLAND, S.C. (WCSC) - The city of Charleston wants to build a new park off Maybank Highway on Johns Island.
The new park could stretch across 26 acres of land that includes two lakes.
The property is located on Griffith Road, which is right behind the Island School and down the road from the Tattooed Moose.
Charleston Special Project Administrator Matt Compton says in the first phase of the project, the city would like to set up docks for water access, walking trails through the park, and connections to the communities and school nearby. Then in the next phase he says they would like to add in picnicking areas and possibly build an expansion of the city’s Environmental Education Program in the park.
“At Bridgestone, sustainability is core to our business and integrated into every level of our operation. Our global sustainability framework includes important goals in reducing CO2 emissions by 50 percent by 2030, as we strive toward our long-term environmental target of becoming carbon neutral by 2050,” said Paolo Ferrari, president & CEO, Bridgestone Americas, and executive vice president and executive officer, Bridgestone Corporation.
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Recently, the plant partnered with Clemson University, the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to utilize its solar array as a pilot for the development of a sustainable ground covering utilizing native South Carolina plants to encourage native, low-maintenance biodiverse vegetation in and around solar arrays in the state. Consistent with Bridgestone’s commitment to protect the environment, the Aiken C
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Bridgestone Americas Harnessing Solar Power to Support Tire Production and Reduce CO2 Emissions
March 2, 2021 GMT
NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (Bridgestone), a wholly owned subsidiary of Bridgestone Corporation and a global leader in sustainable mobility solutions, announced its first ground solar array providing power directly to the manufacturing process. The new solar array is located at the company’s Aiken County, South Carolina, Passenger/Light Truck Tire Plant in Graniteville, South Carolina. The new installation includes approximately 8 acres of solar panels that generate 2 megawatts of energy while reducing 1,400 metric tons of CO2 emissions annually, equivalent to the annual electricity use of over 200 homes .1